Rev. Dr. O. Carl Brown, Jr., 91, of Pandora, died Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, after a battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was preceded in death by an infant son, Jared Paul Brown. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Martha Pauline Gerber Brown, sons, David A. Brown (Carol) and Darryl John Brown (Robin) of St. Petersburg, Fla.
He had 8 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. Dr. Brown was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China to missionary parents.
At four years of age he returned to the U.S. for elementary and high school, attended Taylor University, New York Theological Seminary, and received the Ph.D. in Anthropology and Linguistics from Indiana University.
He taught at Nyack Bible Institute, Fort Wayne Bible College and under World Gospel Mission (Marion, Ind.), at Ecole Biblique, Jeremie, Haiti. In the 1970s he founded the Learning Center for Haitian Language and Culture for new missionaries.
He was a founding board member of Quisqueya Christian School in Port-au-Prince. After serving in Haiti for 21 years, the Browns retired to Ft Wayne, Ind., in 1984.
Dr. Brown served as financial secretary at First Missionary Church, in Ft. Wayne. Moving to Pandora in 2006 he was visitation pastor at St John Mennonite Church. The Browns spent two years at Bradenton Missionary Village, Fla, and two years in Birmingham, playing the organ at Brewster Road Alliance until a month before he died.
A funeral service will be at St John Mennonite Church, 15988 Road 4, Pandora, on Friday at 2 p.m. Rev. Lynn Thompson and Darryl J. Brown will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Pandora. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.chiles-lamanfh.com
